Indoor mapping software for Hong Kong warehouses and cargo

Flat land is scarce, so many of Hong Kong’s logistics buildings are multi-storey warehouses with vehicle ramps or large cargo lifts, concentrated in Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi and other older industrial districts. A flat floor plan cannot answer the questions that matter there: which level a pallet is on, which ramp the truck should take and which lift is queueing.

Spatial Map models each level from its own floor plan and stacks them in 3D, joined by stairs, ramps, lifts and escalators. Data links are scoped per floor, so racks on level 5 are coloured from the WMS rows that belong to level 5. Wayfinding routes across floors through stairs and lifts, which helps new staff and visiting drivers. With many similar floors to draw, AI Map drafts walls, doors and racks on each uploaded plan for review.

Most of Hong Kong’s exports are re-exports — goods made elsewhere, much of it in mainland China, that pass through the city on their way to other markets. That trade is consolidated in warehouses near the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals and moved by cross-boundary trucks, barges and container ships.

In a consolidation warehouse, the question is which cartons are on which floor, staged for which container. Spatial Map follows RFID-tagged pallets and cartons door to door, colours dock doors and staging lanes from your WMS, and replays the night with the History player. The Eastport Cross-Dock demo shows 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets in one view.

Hong Kong International Airport has been ranked the world’s busiest cargo airport many times since 2010, including for 2025. Around it, cargo terminals and forwarders’ warehouses handle high-value, time-critical goods — electronics, fashion, fresh food and pharmaceuticals — where a missing shipment or a cold room out of range costs money fast.

Spatial Map colours each cold room from your sensors and keeps the history, as in the Polar Pharma demo; an alert rule such as “reading out of range for 10 minutes” is checked every 15 seconds and raised in the app, not by SMS or email. Secure cages for high-value electronics follow the Northgate Electronics pattern, with RFID reads at every choke point.

Hong Kong’s shopping malls are often many storeys high and built over or beside MTR stations, so a route from the concourse to a shop can cross five or six levels. Spatial Map offers Fastest, Step-free and Other route options across floors, with turn-by-turn steps and walking minutes; there is no live blue dot. The Retail Mart demo shows a three-floor store with escalators, lifts and 85 RFID readers, and the same map carries tenants’ stock and footfall heatmaps one floor at a time.

The interface is available in English and Chinese, among six languages, and each user picks their own. The Chinese interface is Simplified Chinese; there is no Traditional Chinese interface yet. Floor names, rack codes and report titles are your own text and appear in Traditional characters exactly as you write them. For UHF RFID, GS1’s unofficial overview lists 865–868 MHz and 920–925 MHz for Hong Kong; confirm the band and power for your readers with your supplier and OFCA.

The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) and the guidance of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data are the context where location data can identify a person, such as tracking staff or visitors. Your legal advisers decide what applies; most warehouse projects tag pallets, cartons and equipment rather than people, and Spatial Map shows only the data you send it. A data processing agreement is available and the security page describes how data is protected.